The word "mime" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an individual who performs pantomime. For example, "The mime at the carnival amazed the audience with her realistic performance."
As inadvisable celebrations went, this was up there with Robbie Fowler's coke-snorting mime: 40 years after Charlton and Moore had lifted the World Cup with impeccable dignity on this same ground, England's players might as well have marked their 2-0 lead by pretending to have group sex with a prostitute.
Our director's masterstroke for Merchant was a mime sequence to open the play - Bassanio striding on to gaze at Portia's portrait, Shylock jangling a money pouch from a balcony window, Antonio scanning the horizon with a telescope for his fleet of ships - each character miming a silent vignette of their forthcoming journey through the play, all to a tape of olde worlde crumhorn music.
Ratmansky has allowed these to remain, and at the same time has allowed his own 21st-century sensibility to colour the mime and the storytelling.
I have been practicing my mime lately and my fellows tell me I am effective as a Mars bar up a tree.
It's not a recent initiative, but as far as unusual – and effective – measures to improve road-traffic safety go, mime is still hard to beat.
In the mid-90s, Bogotá's then-mayor, Antanas Mockus, employed more than 400 mime artists to stand guard at pedestrian crossings, showing wordless displeasure to reckless pedestrians and drivers who violated traffic rules and put lives at risk.
I walked on to begin my mime.
Asked to mime brushing her teeth, she says she uses bottled water because the stuff from the tap is "bad".
He has worked with the ex-Monty Python actor, Terry Gilliam, and a collaboration with Os Gemeos, the upmarket Brazilian graffiti artist is in the works.Now 64, Mr Polunin has taken the clowning business seriously since the early 1980s, when he first organised a mime parade in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), flouting communist strictures on artistic events.
Audiences watch a mime character preparing for suicide with a noose and end up cheering a finale involving a ticker-tape storm and giant coloured balls, against a haunting, electronic soundscape.
He has a wry, watchful manner and is a practised storyteller, given to punctuating his yarns with cartoon gestures, such as a riffling of hands to mime a corrupt port official pocketing money.
